I prefer the Tantra man. It sounds like shiloh but likes girls, at least part of them. A former partner of mine, in the days when he was single, used to say, "A woman is a life support system for a pussy." Apparently Wolf agrees.

I kind of admire Naomi Wolf's courage. It really takes balls to subject yourself to such certain ridicule. The vagina is not my area of greatest expertise, but there really does seem to be a lot left to learn. Whoever heard of the g-spot until fairly recently? Can you imagine a major pleasure area of the human body that was not discovered until recent times?

Florence King is one of my favorite humorists - a bisexual conservative, an atheist who favors organized religion, a tough-minded feminist who slices and dices whiny progressive womyn. Or, as she puts it:

"If you thought there was nothing new to say about female sexuality, you don’t know Naomi Wolf’s gift for saying nothing new about anything. In her 1991 bestseller, The Beauty Myth, she revealed that attractive women are luckier than homely women. A human shoehorn, she used her subsequent fame to ease herself into the role of political consultant in the 2000 presidential race and reveal that Al Gore has the personality of a tree."

Magazines always go on shelves before their nominal publication date. If you had ever done any work so menial as being a periodicals clerk in a chain bookstore [raises hand here], you would know that. For that matter, you'd know it if you had ever read or -- better yet -- subscribed to any weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, or bi-monthly periodical.

shiloh, Michelle pointed out something you were obviously ignorant of when you wrote your dumb snark ("Heh,heh, they got the wrong date on the magazine.") Of course, pointing out what you are ignorant of is an everyday occurence at Althouse.

Having once received my July Playboy at the end of May, MDT's "attempted" scholarly tediousness is somewhat amusing. Knowing she goes out of her way w/her way to be tiresome.

Hey, look, yet another opportunity to be tedious in a scholarly way! Shiloh, I promise you that my scholarly tediousness never, ever received a Playboy addressed to you. Had it done so, it would have alerted me, and I would have inquired here for your proper address and forwarded the zine on.

But the tediousness is delighted that you found it somewhat amusing, and will do its best to provide further amusement in future.

The history of anthropology & historical linguistics has many sad occasions where an ideology -- nationalism, racism, or in this case, feminism --- took precious little evidence & built a conjectural Taj Mahal out of it.

The claims of Neolithic "Earth Goddess" worship fall into just such a category.

You'd be amazed at how much feminism & (Crack's all-tyme favorite) New Age-isms look back on this Edenic fable (every bit the fable as the one in Genesis) as a proper societal end to work towards.

Hey, at the least the Christians & Jews know we can't go back to their Eden.

I don't know anyone would think I have a "Mormon obsession" when I've covered every religion, cult, belief system, etc., under the sun. Mormonism is just current because of Romney and how little the rest of you know about it, beyond meeting one or two and buying their bullshit.

Let's see: shiloh, a man-child in an aging body who is old enough to remember the Nixon adminstration but has the writing style of a mentally disturbed 12 year old thinks Michelle Dulak Thompson is "tedious."

That should've read "I don't know WHY anyone would think I have a 'Mormon obsession'..."

And it occurs to me that many of you know as much about what I do as you do Mormonism. Just as you're wrong to think I'm focused on Mormonism, you're just as wrong about Mormonism. You don't understand either.

I'm off to bed knowing you think I'm an idiot. Somehow, that does not trouble me in the slightest, O Great Teller of Truths.

And I wish it wasn't just you. It's funny how people are different:

Some, like me, get called idiots and try to "get smart." Narcissists get called idiots and "that does not trouble me in the slightest" - never realizing that's one of the very qualities that makes them idiotic.

Your point about Mormon cultism, and the lack of attention by many is not lost, it's merely viewed as small potatoes compared to the big major culture war going on. On the one hand you have collectivist Obama and the other you have ideas of individual responsibility, and Romney is the standard bearer for that.

I haven't read all your comments, but I am unaware of any point you've made that shows some irreversible damage would be brought on America by Romney's election to the president.

Obama, I can think of a lot. I can think of a debt already at $51K per every person, and when adjusted for the 47%, it's more like $100K per person.

Frankly, I don't care about Romney's insincerity. Let me agree with you on this. The best thing Romney can do for his cult is to make America more healthy, and not in some flash in the pan way. If that garners the Mormon church some of the parasites, and converts them to cult members paying taxes, guess what? I'm FOR it.

If the cult gets too powerful, the Naomi Wolfs of the world will tear it down. They are doing a pretty good job destroying families, and the Christian faith. I'm sure they would relish a new inconsistent cult to go after (and before you talk about Jones and how the New Agers liked that guy, remember that Mormonism is pretty straight-laced, and is so incompatible with the leftists on so many fronts an alliance would never happen).